Original Painting of New Mexico Village in Winter [SOLD]

Sabo is one of Albuquerque's most famous contemporary artists. She was a student at some point of Carl Von Hassler, probably in the early years of her career. She was best known as a painter until later in her career at which time she switched to sculpture.

She studied art at UNM in the late 1940s and was a renowned painter before she began to create the signature bronzes in her mid-60s. The Albuquerque Museum commissioned one of her first bronze pieces; the 1995 bronze "Julia Resting," of a woman seated on a bench outside the museum's front doors. She also sculpted the Botanical Garden work featuring Clyde and Carrie Tingley, neighbors of Sabo's when she was a child. Clyde Tingley was an early Governor of New Mexico.

Sabo often painted winter scenes with snow and the overall coloration of the paintings was a winter blue-grey effect.  In this painting, she chose to feature a sunset scene resulting in an overall warm rose-colored glow.  The warmth of the sunset in this painting compensates for the cold winter snow.  It is an excellent painting by Sabo, as are all of hers.

Paintings by Sabo are relatively rare as those who knew her when she was a painter have tended to keep those they purchased. It has been a number of years since she painted, so there are no recent ones for collectors to purchase.

Condition: This painting is in original excellent condition.

Provenance: from a gentleman in Albuquerque